Automatic Music Analysis References

Most research in music analysis focuses on the structural and
stylistic elements at the symbolic level. That's interesting, but it
can only be applied to abstract representations of music. I'm
interested in the other kind of music analysis--the kind applicable to
actual music.

My MSc dissertation is now hopelessly out of date,
but this is good news, as it signifies progress in the field.

This is far from a complete list of people and research in the field
of automatic music analysis, but it should help people just getting
started (and it's a useful reference for me).

Microsoft's Communication, Collaboration, and Signal Processing research group has done a number of interesting music-related things, including AutoDJ, which constructs music playlists from a seed of one or more songs using functions learned over metadata. They used high quality (manually assigned) metadata that common folks wouldn't normally have access to, but the technique should work with cheaper inputs.